19 Cal. App. 4th 263 - Smith v. Pust’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2013
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 27 Cal. 3d 916 - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa · 54 Cal. 3d 868 - Christensen v. Superior Court · 2 Cal. 4th 1064 - Burgess v. Superior Court · 48 Cal. 3d 583 - Marlene F. v. Affiliated Psychiatric Medical Clinic, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The wrongful conduct alleged in support of a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress must be conduct that is directed at the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.